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New York Film Critics Circle Awards

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    NYFCC Award

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    Best Actor

    • Kirk Douglas
      Winner
      • Kirk Douglas
      • Lust for Life
    • Yul Brynner
      • Yul Brynner
      • The King and I
      • Anastasia
      • The Ten Commandments
    • Laurence Olivier
      • Laurence Olivier
      • Richard III

    Best Actress

    • Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca (1942)
      Winner
      • Ingrid Bergman
      • Anastasia
    • Deborah Kerr
      • Deborah Kerr
      • The King and I
      • Tea and Sympathy
    • Audrey Hepburn
      • Audrey Hepburn
      • War and Peace

    Best Director

    • John Huston
      Winner
      • John Huston
      • Moby Dick
    • Elia Kazan
      • Elia Kazan
      • Baby Doll

    Best Film

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      Winner

      Around the World in 80 Days

      6.7 (31K)
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      Giant

      7.6 (44K)
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      Moby Dick

      7.3 (23K)

    Best Foreign Language Film

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      Winner

      La Strada

      8.0 (69K)
      Italy.
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      The Grand Maneuver

      6.7 (1.2K)
      Tied with Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954), Seven Samurai (1954), and I Vitelloni (1953).
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      Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

      7.4 (10K)
      Tied with The Grand Maneuver (1955), Seven Samurai (1954) and I Vitelloni (1953).
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      Seven Samurai

      8.6 (389K)
      Tied with The Grand Maneuver (1955), Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954) and I Vitelloni (1953).
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      I Vitelloni

      7.8 (22K)
      Tied with The Grand Maneuver (1955), Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954) and Seven Samurai (1954).

    Best Screenplay

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      Winner

      Around the World in 80 Days

      6.7 (31K)
      S.J. Perelman
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      Moby Dick

      7.3 (23K)
      Ray Bradbury
      John Huston
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      Giant

      7.6 (44K)
      Fred Guiol
      Ivan Moffat
      Tied with Ernest Lehman for The King and I (1956) and Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956).
    • Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner in The King and I (1956)
      Paul Newman and Pier Angeli in Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
      • The King and I
      • Somebody Up There Likes Me
      Ernest Lehman
      Tied with Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat for Giant (1956).

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    Event date

    January 19, 1956

    Event location

    New York, New York, USA

    Event links

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